Soaring Numbers of Air Travelers Expected Weekend Before July 4
- TSA warns of heavy airport traffic before Independence Day
- An estimated 2.6 million people are forecast to fly Friday
Travelers at LaGuardia Airport in New York.
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Buckle up. The Friday before July 4 may approach a record for the busiest day ever for U.S. airports, the head of Transportation Security Administration said.
Traffic for the day could top 2.6 million passengers, making it “potentially one of the busiest in TSA history,” TSA administrator David Pekoske told reporters on Wednesday. TSA says nine of the top 15 days in the past 16 years have occurred since May 2017 and the peak day last year was on the Friday before Independence Day, when 2.65 million people flew.